Tennis cheats may be predicted by their moral standards
A study of moral and social attitudes of tennis players has linked these characteristics to direct observations of cheating behavior in match play. [...]
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Organic Chemistry: The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and communication
New specialty section on Organic Chemistry to be led by Chief Editor, Pr. Iwao Ojima who stresses the importance of a multidisciplinary outlook for his field. [...]
Creating human super intelligence: winner of Spotlight Award 2017
Superintelligence: fact or fiction. First Frontiers Spotlight Award Winner for outstanding research into human brain augmentation [...]
The World’s Oceans are in Crisis but the First UN Meeting on Oceans Brings Hope
The World’s Oceans are in Crisis but the First UN Meeting on Oceans Brings Hope, article published by Nina Hall for Frontiers in Marine Science [...]
Frontiers eBooks published in May 2017
Frontiers, home to some of the most cited open access science, has published an eBooks list for May 2017, being a compilation of academic research articles in Science, Health and Engineering [...]
Edging Closer to a Winner for Major New Frontiers Research Award
Ten cutting-edge Frontiers Research Topics announced as finalists for the first Spotlight Award which grants US$100,000 to organize a conference. [...]
Professor Josep Bassaganya-Riera wins 2017 Innovator of the Year Award
Josep Bassaganya-Riera, a Frontiers Specialty Chief Editor and serial entrepreneur named 2017 Innovator of the Year by Roanoke- Blacksburg Technology Council (USA). [...]
Unravelling the mysteries of the farthest objects of the Solar System
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences launched a new Research Topic which aims to investigates the origins and the main features of trans-Neptunian objects, small celestial objects that orbit the Sun at a greater distance than Neptune. [...]
Frontiers eBooks published in March
The list of Frontiers eBooks published in March 2017. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. [...]
Frontiers Landing in Copenhagen for ESHG’s 50th Anniversary
Between 27th – 30th May 2017, Frontiers in Genetics will be in historic Copenhagen and the innovative Øresund/ Öresund Science Region. [...]
Building a Facebook of the Middle Ages
Could ‘big data’ of the past allow us to build an historical social network? The Venice Time Machine Project is finding out — by Kevin Baumer Meet Battista [...]
160-million Papers and Counting: The World’s Information Deluge
Academic output has exploded over the last 100 years but how can the most relevant research be found? — by Melissa Cochrane In 2009, it’s estimated there were at [...]
In Politics Does Rudeness Win?
A new research project wants to track if our politics is getting ruder or whether it’s the media – stupid! — Tanya Petersen “Happy New Year to all, including to [...]
Open Science will take us into a new world
Open Science: Removing the limits on science to drive innovation and advance knowledge.
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Selection Committee for First Annual Frontiers Spotlight Award
The 1st annual Frontiers Spotlight Award Committee has been announced and will reward an outstanding Research Topic with US$ 100,000 to organize a conference. [...]
Second annual Frontiers Spotlight Award announced for 2018
The annual $100,000 competition is now open. All Frontiers Research Topics completed in 2017 will be considered. [...]
Frontiers named finalist in Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Awards
Frontiers was honored to be named a finalist in the 19th annual Ernst and Young (EY) Swiss Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Since 1998, EY has offered a unique platform [...]
The Retraction Procedure at Frontiers
by Gearoid Faolean, Frontiersin.org As an academic publisher, Frontiers utilizes peer review to ensure academic rigor is applied to all manuscripts submitted to our journals. [...]
Frontiers publishes its 50,000th article
Frontiers has reached a major milestone and published its 50,000th article. Frontiers was born digital as an open-access publisher in 2007. It has grown to become the home [...]
Frontiers Impact Factors rise as volume increases: quality at scale
Currently, Frontiers has 19 journals with Impact Factors, and several more have already been approved for the 2016 edition. [...]
Open Access to science papers will be default by 2020, say European ministers
By Emily Barker, Communications Strategist at Frontiers There was a breakthrough for open-access publishing on Friday 27 May, as EU research ministers published a commitment [...]
New Data Debunks Old Beliefs: Part 2
Our original New data debunks old beliefs blog post plotted the impact factors of 570 randomly selected journals indexed in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson [...]
Changing ways: High impact, fast decisions and reasonable rejection rates in scholarly publishing
Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers' citations rates are amongst the very highest. [...]
Selecting for impact: new data debunks old beliefs
One of the strongest beliefs in scholarly publishing is that journals seeking a high impact factor (IF) should be highly selective, accepting only papers predicted to become [...]
